By Steve Browne
Valley City Times-Record

The search committee for a new president of Valley City State University narrowed the list of 25 candidates to 11 at its meeting Friday, Feb. 29.
    A 16-member committee, comprised of representatives of the community and VCSU faculty, staff and student body, first drew up a list of interview questions and agreed on a list of questions to ask references. They then chose candidates for the next stage of the search, based on written answers each candidate submitted.
    Those remaining include Phil Harmeson, the University of North Dakota’s vice president for general administration, and Ray Brown, who was the vice president for academic affairs at Valley City State and Mayville State in the late 1990s. He’s now director of institutional research at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo.
    The next stage of the search will be to ask candidates to respond to case studies. Each case study will outline a theoretical situation a university president might face, and ask them for their responses to it.

For full story, see Monday's edition of the Valley City Times-Record.